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Rising from the lush hills of Silicon Valley, Google's sprawling glass-and-steel headquarters embodies its astonishing ascent from little-known start-up to global icon of the Internet (Greising 1). Now how exactly did Google get to the point in its history that it is at today? Well it started in 1995 when two young entrepreneur, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met at Stanford University (Google 1). You see Sergey was assigned to show Larry around the campus (Google 1). Ironically enough they argued about almost everything during this short encounter (Google 1). They decided to put their differences aside and take care of the overwhelming fact that, that search engines are not technologically as advanced as they should be (Google 1). That's when they decided to create Google. A play on the word googol. With hopes of making a search engine with seemingly infinite information (Google 1).

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Google soon expects to house up to 200 employees (Olson 1). As you can see Google immediately took off from its starting position of two kids. Who were barely out of college at the time. Google's first offices were located in a garage (Google 1). To no one's surprise they quickly needed to move out. They were in need of a bigger better and more sufficient space. Google's effect on the economy and its strength was quickly growing and becoming wide spread. Google was a jugerknot of a machine that would not be stopped.

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Google's dominance on search engines quickly was spreading and there was no end in sight. Over 55 percent of all searches on search engines were being used by Google. Other engines have almost no hope of competing with Google. Or even being used for that matter. As a matter of fact by August of 2001 Google opened its first international office (Google 1). It is located in Tokyo, Japan (Google 1). And by December of 2001 Google's index size was up to 3 billion documents (Google 1). A nearly impossible feat.

Efforts by Google to diversify by acquiring other Internet industry firms such as YouTube and DoubleClick are considered to be attempt at a Google take over (Weintraub 1). Google has made an amazing amount of growth since it first was released. As a matter of fact it has over 40 different options outside of just an average search engine (Google 1). It has options such as Google Earth, Google Documents and even Google videos just to name a few. So it is no wonder why so many speculators could come to the idea of a Googlefied world. However I am not sold on the idea. It is not out of the question.

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Google's amazing and unique history has drastically changed over the past fifteen years. Google has gone from a search engine to having videos. From having videos to holding documents to allow you to pull up on any computer in the world. And even the largest translator in the world. So as you can see Google has become truly its own animal. A power house jugerknot that sees no light to the end of this tunnel. But as for right now we should all just sit back and enjoy Google for what it is. Just be appreciative for two twenty five year old kids who have changed not only America but the World.